El nombre de la memoria robada

Cuadernos Del Sur. Filosofía 35:119-136 (2006)
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In this essay we attempt to go into the subject of the memory of State terrorism within the field of philosophical reflection. To be exact, we want to establish political-ethical tensions between the problematic questions of the identity of appropriated children and the wounded memory, between the narrative of the historical past and the impossible mourning. Tensions that then combine themselves in the relationship between politics and tragedy. One of the sinister ways that simple life, or naked life in the terms of Giorgio Agamben, was manipulated, that is, was violently turned into an object, or as military jargon puts it: "war booty", during the last Dictatorship, consisted in the appropriation of the children of the detained and disappeared persons. Biopolitical strategy that inscribed life in a state calculation, more exactly in the reckoning of the terror and the passing of the law that dictates the exception: to annihilate, to wipe out the enemy, to exorcise the phantasm. The remnant, one among many : children born in captivity or snatched from their homes, during or after their parents illegal detention. Formation of a signed subjectivity, threatened by the seal of terror. Inextricable, it sets in. Phantom-like installations of desires, bodies, loves, faces. Phantoms made up of skin and bones. Some do not even know about this, maybe they even do not have any suspicions.En el presente ensayo intentamos precipitarnos en el tema de la memoria del terrorismo de Estado en el campo de la reflexión filosófica. Más precisamente, nos interesa establecer tensiones ético-políticas entre la problemática de la identidad de los niños apropiados y la memoria herida; entre las narrativas del pasado histórico y el duelo imposible. Tensiones que se conjugan entonces en la relación entre política y tragedia. Una de las formas siniestras en que la simple vida, o vida desnuda en términos agambenianos, fue manipulada, esto es, violentamente devenida ob-jeto, o en la jerga militar "botín de guerra" durante la última dictadura, consistió en la apropiación-secuestro de hijos de detenidos-desaparecidos. Estrategia biopolítica que inscribía la vida en un cálculo estatal, más precisamente, en el cálculo del terror y de la ley que dicta la excepción: aniquilar al enemigo, conjurar al fantasma. El saldo -uno entre tantos: niños nacidos en cautiverio o arrebatados de sus casas, durante o luego de la detención ilegal y clandestina de sus padres. Formación de la subjetividad signada, amenazada por la rúbrica del terror. Inexpurgable, se instala. Instalaciones fantasmáticas de deseos, cuerpos, amores, rostros. Fantasmas de carne y hueso. Algunos ni siquiera lo saben, quizás, ni siquiera lo sospechen

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